Research project

Space weather impacts on ground structures (SWIGS)

Research groups:

Geology and Geophysics
Lead researcher:

Professor Robert Fear
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Fear

Professor

Research interests

Magnetic reconnection
Large-scale solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
Global magnetospheric dynamics

Connect with Robert

Email: r.c.fear@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geology and Geophysics

We research a wide range of societally impactful areas of geology and geophysics for a sustainable future. The latest facilities and technology development support our activities.

Research outputs

Estimating the electric field response to the Halloween 2003 and September 2017 magnetic storms across Scotland using observed geomagnetic fields, magnetotelluric impedances and perturbation tensors

Fiona Simpson,

& Karsten Bahr

, 2020 , Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate , 10

DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2020049

Type: article

Nowcasting and validating Earth's electric‐field response to extreme space‐weather events using magnetotelluric data: application to the September 2017 geomagnetic storm and comparison to observed and modelled fields in Scotland

Fiona Simpson,

& Karsten Bahr

, 2020 , Space Weather

DOI: 10.1029/2019SW002432

Type: article

The role of tectonic plate thickness and mantle conductance in determining regional vulnerability to extreme space weather events: possible enhancement of magnetic source fields by secondary induction in the asthenosphere

Fiona Simpson,

& Karsten Bahr

, 2020 , Space Weather , 18 (12)

DOI: 10.1029/2020SW002587

Type: article